WSH @ PIT
Home plate: John Libka
“An honest evening's grade: nothing loud, nothing missed by much.”
What this shows — how John Libka called the 168 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 155 right. Below, only his misses are plotted, alongside every pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1-0.69▼4 · 3-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Bryan Reynolds vs Miles Mikolas - 2+0.28▼2 · 1-2 strike called ball
Nick Gonzales vs Miles Mikolas - 3-0.28▼5 · 1-2 ball called strike· challenged ✓
Oneil Cruz vs Mitchell Parker
Run impact from the count run-value table: a missed strike three is worth far more than one on 3-0.
ABS — the Automated Ball-Strike System
6 pitches went to the robots · 3 overturned (ump overruled) · 3 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Jorbit Vivas — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
- 2Joey Bart — ump said ball, robot ruled strike: overturned.
- 3Bryan Reynolds — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 4Oneil Cruz — ump said strike, robot ruled ball: overturned.
- 5Joey Bart — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
- 6James Wood — ump said strike, robot ruled strike: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 5 of 6 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.